Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-02-19
The Great Strike.

reiChborin streets presented q Sunday ap
pearance this morning and there was no
change in the cond ition Of affairs. Not more
than a fourth of the usual number Of trucks
we're out. Most Of the piers were open to re-
reive freight but little came. The prospect
of a settlement of the difficulties between the
longshOremen and the steamship companies
and freight handlers and railway companies
is remote, each side being confident Of COM
ing out of the trouble victor
The steamer Clvde sailed some hours later
than the scheduled tine but carried a full
cargo and her quota Of passengers The
Seminole also carried a full cargo and her
quota Of passengers. Men who apply Tor
work at the Mallory line docks arc being turn
ed clear lear 81 n rl5sSRu ,5s Rundr6d Ih WEy Of men
At the Continental line dock plenty OF freight
was delivered and the whole bulk-head was
lined with trucks. The New Haven freight
line and Hartford line did more business than
Saturday.
To-lav a freight fight took place on the
picr OF the Morgan line Of steamers between a
number Of Italians and striking longshOle-
men. After the police separated the combat
ants John O'Neil. a lOngshOreman. was found
living on the pier with a deep cash down hl,
back and near him lay an open razor. h.
was TinOVtu 10 lne lespiIA III ah unSon
sCOUs condition.
The boss stevedores held 4 meeting
and Uuk measures 10 ill the places of
strikers tomorrow. Brooklyn coal dealers anG
their clerks have been delivering coal to-day
guarded bv police. Doctors at the Long Island
college hospital carted in person twelve tons
of coal TO that institution. The strikers over
turned one cart in Brooklyn but were chased
away by police. The strikers themselves have
no coal aud because of their idleness they are
earning NO money to buy coal.
Over 200 men employed in J. r. Thompson
& Cos steel works, Jersey City, quit work to-
dav and the factory is idle, walking dele
gates having ordered them out because
''scabr coal was being used in the furnaces
An attempt was made 10 order out the hands
| in Matthesson u Wicher's sugar refinery this
morning but the walking delegates were or
dered off the premises. In JERSEY City and
HobOken the strikers made no demonstrations
| to-day and everything was quiet.
When the assembly committee to inquire
| into the cause of the strike met to-day, +. A.
| Potts. president Of the New York, Susquehan.
| ma and Western railroad, gave an outline oil
| the coal mining and coal handling industry,
giving the price at the mines and at the DER
sey City docks the lighterage, trimmings etc,
| nd the wholesale and retail prices IN New
York CITY, He then outlined the plan OF the
| coal pool, and said that the companies form
| ing il did not abide by its terms, and that in
| July last coal was at the lowest point in the
l history of the trade. He believed in arbttra
| ton if the decision of the arbitrators could be
| enforced.
Austin Corbin. president and receiver of th'
/ Reading road, testified that his company haG
seveDty-nine cOllieries and produced from
| 6. 100. OO0 to 10000 tons of coal annually
| The collieries run over 100 miles from tide
| water. Large expense was involved In return
/ ing empty coal ears TO the mines from tide
| water This was not included in the account
4 of the companies. The Philadelphia coal ant
iron company. whose stock was owned by IN
/ Reading road. mined and sold its owu coal
/ paving for its transportation like any othe
| company. Last year the company lost s., ,.S5,
/ eco The oniy profit in the cOllieries was .
| the railroad company for transportation.
| exactly balanced the loss 10 the coal and iro
COMPANY. The workingmsn made sewers
million dollars more ont OF the coal buslnes
| last wear than the coal companies did.
| Mr. Corbin stated that two weeks ago b
| was summoned To Harrisburg by the governo
/ Of PENNSYLVANIA. He was informed then tha
his company had violated the laws OF tha
/ state in combining to raise the price OF coz
| and must desist. At the same time the receiy
FRS of the railroad company were threatene
| with ousting il tley did not make a bette
showing. They stood between two fret
| They could not increase their revenue b
| raising the prices; could not make any prof
at present prices; were threatened with Va
cation of the receivership if they did not max
more money. ami threatened BY their employe
| if they did not paw more wages. His compan
increased their miners wages about per CEN
in March last.
Mr.. Corbin's remedy for the troubles bt
tween capital and labor was arbitration, bu
be could not advance any plan. His CON
pany had had trouble with their men som
months ago. which was settled satisfactoril
by arbitration. The company had endeavore
to live up to the decision of the arbitrator
and the workmeu we're satisfied. But 1t wa
said now that they would go out again, not b
cause they were dissatisfied, but because SOM
one else who worked for another company wa
dissatisfied There seemed 10 be no plan
which an arbitration law could bind the wori
ingmen. The Reading road had lost ovt
| twenty million dollars in the coal buslnes
Prices are now below profitable point.
| Edwin r. Holden. second vice president {
the Delaware. Lackawana and Western raj
road and coal company said it was fa'
that his company had paid the trimmers mol
this year than ever before, vet had receive
less for their coal than in former years